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blood runs cold

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someone's blood runs cold

make someone's blood run cold - if something makes someone's blood run cold, it makes them very frightened. Steph's blood ran cold as she heard someone move in the shadows.

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Her blood runs cold at the mention of your name; the vulture and the lamb, the rat and the dove, could not be worse matched than you and she. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

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